Loose-leaf register and cabinet.



No. 869,139. PATENTED OCT. 22. 1907. E. A. PACER. LOOSELEAP REGISTER AND CABINET.

. APPLIGATION FILED MAR.20,1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD A. FAGER, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL LOOSE-LEAF HOTEL REGISTER COMPANY, OF DAWSON, GEORGIA, A CORPORATION OF GEORGIA.

LOOSE-LEAF REGISTER AND CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1907.

' Application filed March 20. 1907- Serial No. 363.477.

-To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD'A. Fnonn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Altanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Loose-Leaf Registers and Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to what I shall for convenience term a loose-leaf register and cabinet, the object of the invention being to provide a simple and effective device of this character by which pads of loose leaves can be laid into a suitable chamber and removed therefrom one or more at a time, as occasion requires.

The device may be put to many advantageous uses; it may, for example, be used in a hotel.

In connection with the device and as a part thereof I prefer to employ a blotter associated in a novel way with the body portion of said device and so that it can be moved from place to place 01' back out of the way.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification I show in detail one form of embodiment of the invention which, to enable those skilled in the art to practice the same, will be set forth at length in the following description, while the novelty of said invention will be included in the claims succeeding said description.

Referring to said drawings: Figure 1' is a top plan view of a register involving my invention, showing the pad in place and the blotter as occupying its operative position. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of said register. Fig. 3 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1 with the pad or leaves removed and with the blotter thrown back. Fig. 4 is a detail view in perspective of the blotter-carrier or frame. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing a ''manner of mounting the support for the blotter-carrier.

Fig. 6 is a like .view showing one of the leaves of a pad.

Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several figures.

The register includes in its construction a body portion as 2, and this may be made from any desirable material, for example, wood, and it may be ornamented to any suitable extent and may carry on its exposed, surface advertisements. I prefer to form in the body portion 2 a chamber or cavity as 3, and, although this chamber or cavity may be of any suitable shape, it is represented as being square, to accommodate the leaves of a pad as 4. When I use the latter designation it will be understood that I do not refer to a pad wherein the leaves are connected to each other, as the pad .in the present case consists of separate leaves simply superimposed upon each other without any connection, so that it is only necessary to slip the uppermost sheet of the pad from the one next below it when it is desired to disassociate the former from the register.

I prefer to mount the pad 4 upon a follower as 5 which may consist of a piece of wood or a metal plate mounted in the chamber or cavity 3. The follower 5 has applied thereto a constant upward or outward thrust which automatically tends to feed the pad in an upward direction. The pad, however, is prevented from jumping or being forced from the chamber or cavity 3 by shoulders as 6 overlying the side marginal portions of the pad at the top thereof for a very slight extent. It will be obvious, therefore, that, when the topmost sheet is slipped from place, owing to the relation to which allusion has been made, the second sheet will be moved into 6 5 contact with the overlying shoulders 6. The latter may be made integral with the body portion ,2 or may consist of separate metal strips fastened to said body portion.

Any suitable means may be provided for imparting I have shown in Fig. 6 one of the leaves of the pad 4,

and this leaf is particularly adapted for hotel use, it bearing upon its face printed matter indicating the name and residence of a guest and certain other data.

A blotter as 8 is provided, and this blotter is preferably carried by a swinging frame as 9 shown as supported for rocking motion by a red, as 10, which may be supported by the eyes of screweyes as 11 screwed into the upper side of the body portion 2, when the latter is of wood, near the adjacent corners of the chamber 3. The opposite ends ofthe rod 10 are provided with knobs as 12 to prevent endwise movement of said rod. The carrier 9 for the blotter is shown as consisting of a rectangular frame of skeleton formation the length of which approximately equals the width of the chamber 3, and two of the long bars of said frame 9 are projected outward beyond one of the connecting cross bars and are shaped to present hooks or eyes as 13 for embracing the rod 10 in such a way as to permit movement of the frame or blotter-carrier 9 longitudinally of said rod and to also permit swinging movement of the frame. I may attach to the opposite long bars of said frame and to the outer end bar thereof clips as 14 for clipping the edges of the blotter 8. The blotter by the movement of the frame 9 can be brought to any part of thesurface of the upper sheet of the pad 4, or said blotter can be swung back out of the way, as shown in Fig. 3, to leave the topmost sheet of the pad exposed.

At the top of the body portion 2 I may form several The lower ends of these springs are 75 k t 515 hi h may b respectively l d for and the bottom of the chamber for constantly pressing the reception of an ink-well, tooth picks, or matches, or may be employed for any other desired purpose.

What I claim is:

v 1. A device of the class described comprising a paclcarrying body portion and a blotter-frame connected with said body portion for swinging movement relatively thereto, said blotter frame being provided with a plurality of clips carried by the side bars and one of the end bars thereof, for removably engaging a sheet of blotting paper.

2. A device of the class described comprising a body portion having a pad-receiving chamber, a follower member in said chamber, spring means between the follower member the follower member outwardly, a rod extending along one side of the chamber, a blotter frame of substantially rectangular formation, the opposite side bars and one end bar of which are provided with clips for removably receiving a sheet of blotting paper, and said side bars having continuations constituting hooks to both slide and turn on said rod.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD A. FACER. Witnesses:

W. L. CALHOUN, M. E. GARRISON. 

